Michael Ned Holte is a writer, independent curator, and educator based in Los Angeles. He has organized numerous exhibitions including “Routine Pleasures” (2016) at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House, Los Angeles; “TL;DR” (2014) at Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand; and, with Connie Butler, the 2014 edition of “Made in L.A.” at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. He has written monographic essays on artists such as Kathryn Andrews, Hani Armanious, Charles Gaines, Richard Hawkins, Alice Könitz, Shio Kusaka, Roy McMakin, Ricky Swallow, and Clarissa Tossin, and has contributed to periodicals including Afterall, Artforum International, The Brooklyn Rail, East of Borneo, Pin-Up, and X-Tra. He has been a member of the faculty at the California Institute of the Arts since 2009, and has served as Co-Director of the Program in Art since 2014.